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Long-term readers of this blog will know that I'm picky about where the buttons on my Windows go. (Also known as Window Controls) I prefer them to be on the left-hand side. For some reason while upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, they switched from the left to the right....

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Change Window Control Buttons Location in Ubuntu 12.10

October 22, 2012Written by
Josh B

Long-term readers of this blog will know that I'm picky about where the buttons on my Windows go. (Also known as Window Controls) I prefer them to be on the left-hand side. For some reason while upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, they switched from the left to the right. I was not happy. So, how can they be switched back...?

Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

October 10, 2012Written by
Josh B

More than two years I published my guide to installing Oracle 10 onto Ubuntu. That was back when iPads where new things and Obama was still popular. Now times have changed and Oracle 11g is a popular database. This guide is aimed at other Developers who need a database to develop against and are using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The LTS versions of Ubuntu are handy since they are supported for a long time, until April 2017.

So given that you want to install it, how do you do go about this....?

Fixing Scrolling on Ubuntu 12.04 with a Magic Trackpad

September 28, 2012Written by
Josh B

I have a Magic Trackpad, and I also use a Mac at home. I've got used to using Natural Scrolling on the Mac, so I wanted to have this on my Ubuntu 12.04 Developer box at work. I managed to get this working by modifying some of the more hidden settings of Ubuntu.

How to Install Oracle Sqlplus on Mountain Lion

September 4, 2012Written by
Josh B

So far I have not been able to install Oracle as a database on Apple hardware. However it is possible to install Oracle's SqlPlus utility instead. This will allow you to modify and update your Oracle database via Oracle's tool. However, the Oracle database server will have to be somewhere else on your network. By having a local version of SqlPlus life is made slightly easier while developing. No more having to ssh into to a remote server...!

The Emporer's New Tablet

June 25, 2012Written by
Josh B

Way back in March 2010 everyone was very, very excited about the Courier. I called this out as a vapour-ware product. And strangely enough, the Courier turned out to be another in a long line of vapour-ware products from Microsoft. Now Microsoft has unveiled its entry into the Tablet world. The Microsoft Surface Tablet. It's an iPad with a stylus and a keyboard and a kick-stand. And anything else they can think of.

It's even rumoured to have "Pixel Sense". Aka the old Microsoft Surface table that went down like a over-sized interactive coffee table that only features in CSI: Miami. (Although I'm impressed by Digital Trends running with this rumour, even though no-one else picked up on it).

Unfortunately, I'm not inclined to believe this will be shipping any time soon either.

Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and XGI Graphics Cards

May 14, 2012Written by
Josh B

If you have a XGI Graphics card, you may find this tip useful. When I was upgrading a Dell PowerEdge server recently, it rebooted and instead of showing a nice looking UI, I was dumped back into 800x600 land. Why did this happen...? How did I fix it...?

Changing the Size of the Unity Launcher

May 14, 2012Written by
Josh B

This is a quick tip for people who haven't yet figured out how to change the size of the Unity Launcher bar. Yes, you know, the big vertical bar that is on the left-hand side of the screen in Ubuntu 12.04. When you first log in it's quite big and over-bearing.

Eclipse and Ubuntu Unity

May 1, 2012Written by
Josh B

Now that Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04 has been released, it looks like Unity is finally good enough for Development use. So, how can you get Global Menus to work with that fairly standard IDE, Eclipse...? Guess where the solution is...?

DON'T PANIC....!!!!

For each statements are only available if source level is 5.0

April 24, 2012Written by
Josh B

At the Mega-corp I work at, there is still some legacy code that uses JSPs. Of course, we all wish we could be using new technology like Wicket and other more interesting frameworks. However, sometimes we must work with that we have...